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Massachusetts’ Top Court Nixes Immigration ‘Holds’
Photo Credit: The badge of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Fugitive Operations team is seen in Santa Ana, California, U.S., May 11, 2017. Lucy Nicholson/File Photo The top...
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New York City Embraces Civil Gideon
New York City’s Right to Counsel bill, proposed by Councilmember Mark Levine (pictured), passed on Thursday. Photo Credit: MoneyBox online article, 7/21/17 The argument for Civil Gideon process took a...
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Legal Pot Might Be Sued Out of Business
The original suit claimed that the aroma from a nearby marijuana grow made horse riding less pleasant.Thinkstock file photo A ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit is raising...
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Texas Journalist Explains Medicaid Flaw In Asbestos Lawsuits, Calls For Change
Photo Credit: File photo, Dallas Observer article, August 13, 2017 A Dallas-based journalist who pioneered coverage of asbestos lawsuit issues is calling for changes while explaining a “Catch 22” that...
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Will Pot + RICO Challenge State’s Federalist Trend?
Marijuana plants grow at LifeLine Labs in Cottage Grove, Minn., in 2015. (Jim Mone/Associated Press) Writing in The Washington Post, legal commentator Jonathan H. Adler outlines both the context and...
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L.A. Jury Awards Record $417 Million In Talc Cancer Case
The plaintiff, Eva Echeverria, was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2007. Photo Credit: The Los Angeles Times online article, 8/21/2017 The Los Angeles Times is among those reporting on a $417-million...
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CM Publisher Updates Fuel Gas Story, Notes Texas Preempts Local Rules
Sara Warner, Founding Publisher of the National Courts Monitor & California Courts Monitor Writing in The Huffington Post, Courts Monitor Publisher Sara Warner updates her coverage of a...
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With Trump’s DACA Decision, A Look At Context
Tomas Martinez, with GLAHR, a grass roots organization from Atlanta, chants to excite the crowd in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on Monday, April 18, 2016. Hundreds gathered in...
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15 States, D.C., Sue Over Trump’s DACA Decision
Protesters gather at a federal building at Congress Parkway and Clark Street in Chicago on Sept. 5, 2017, to protest President Donald Trump’s rollback of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals...
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Three State Will Lead On DACA Lawsuit
Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson, left, speaks with Graciela Nuñez, a DACA recipient, at a Seattle news conference called to announce Washington’s participation in a lawsuit against the...
View ArticlePBS Airs Great Backgrounder On Immigration Courts Backlog Crisis
Amid the debate over President Trump’s immigration policies, it still gets overlooked that hundreds of thousands of people are in limbo because our immigration courts are backed up for years. Now PBS...
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Victims Attorneys Confront Filmmaker After Asbestos Documentary Screening
Photo Credit: Image from 9/21/17 SE TexasRecord online report. In a panel discussing following a work-in-progress screening of his new asbestos documentary, filmmaker Paul Johnson might put at least...
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San Francisco Leads Nation In Immigration Court Backlog
Those waiting to have their asylum cases heard find the reality that there currently aren’t enough judges and staff to handle the demand leaving some applicants forced to wait for years while their...
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US Supreme Court Nixes Appeal In Levee Case Against 97 Firms
Damage to wetlands caused by canals, such as seen here around the Delacroix community, was the focus of the failed lawsuit by the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East.(Ted Jackson,...
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Eshoo, and Issues, Crash a U.S. House ‘Platitude Party’
Sara Corcoran is a correspondent, contributing editor, and founding publisher for the National Courts Monitor & California Courts Monitor A new first responder network is facing some tough...
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Congress, Trump block class-action lawsuits against banks
Richard Cordray will step down as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as reported in the New York Times, 11/15/17. Photo Credit: Andrew Mangum for The New York Times. This month,...
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Proposed Immigration Court Reform Could Be ‘Death Knell’
Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks at the Executive Office for Immigration Review in Falls Church, Va. Photo credit: Sait Serkan Gurbuz/AP as reported by The Washington Post,10/12/17. Judicial...
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Delaware Report Recommends More Funding for ‘Civil Gideon’
A Sacramento Police officer makes a traffic stop in November 2012. Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill in June to end the practice of Californians losing their driver’s license because of unpaid traffic...
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Law Firms Eager to Solicit Victims of California Fires
Photo Credit: Jim Wilson/The New York Times as reported by the New York Times on 10/20/17. Where there’s smoke, there are lawyers. From the Press Democrat in Santa Rosa, Calif., comes a wry...
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No resolution expected for ‘Dreamers’ by end of year
Photo by John Gastaldo/Reuters as included in the PBS report on Dec 5, 2017. The status of recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program — commonly known as Dreamers — likely will...
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